A27064:1129
Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the…
Universal redemption of mankind, by the Lord Jesus Christ stated and cleared by the late learned Mr. Richard Barter [sic] ; whereunto is added a short account of Special redemption, by the same author.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1694
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
If a Man to whom you owe 1000l. make you an Acquittance and Discharge, on Condition you pay him a Penny in token of thankfulness, here that Penny is plainly excepted from among the number, or from the Sum given, or forgiven.
If a King pass an Act for the pardoning of all Offences committed against him, on Condition Men will thankfully acknowledge his Clemency; here the not acknowledging it thankfully is plainly excepted from among the number of Faults Pardoned.
2. Moreover this Law being thus constituted for all, (Elect as well as others) it is undoubted, that if we may suppose an Elect man to be guilty of final unbelief, or impenitency, it would be to him an unpardonable sin, and consequently Christ dyed not for it..
If you say, this is not to be supposed, I Answer,